"This is why I'm not at school during cloudless days." He smiled at her.
But Ellie didn't move, couldn't move. Her eyes swept over him, memorizing him, every glitter, every sparkle. And then she was suddenly afraid.
"What's wrong?" Zephen asked. Ellie just stared, frozen. Suddenly Zephen's face became horrified. He took a step away. Ellie's body cried for him to come back, but she couldn't move. "You're frightened." Zephen stated the obvious. He looked away. "I- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He slowly walked back toward the shade of the trees.
"No, I'm not afraid of you" Ellie whispered, too quietly for her to hear, it surprised her to see him turn. His gaze lock with hers'.
"What's wrong?" He asked again.
"Don't go, I, I'm afraid that'll you'll disappear, that you will vanish, that, that you are just a dream." She looked away.
He came forward. His shimmering hand barely toched her cheek. Then he took her hand in his and held it up to his cheek. "I won't vanish" He whispered.
The fears Ellie had all vanished. Slowly she hugged him, and he held her there.
Ellie laid on the ground next to Zephen. Though his eyes closed, her eyes never left his face. Her hands never ceasing from carressing his hands.
"It's time that you know everything." He muttered.
"Everything?"
"I'm a vampire, Ellie, have you not realized that?"
"I know what you are" Ellie whispered.
"And you are just like her you know?" His eyes flashed open. "Just like Bella, I've heard the stories over and over...It's, amazing. I want to tell you everything, because I love you, do you understand?"
Ellie smiled. "I love you too."
He smiled back. "I've loved you much longer than you've loved me."
"What?"
He sighed. "Alice saw you in a vision many years ago, back when I was a...younger, in a sense. And so we soon realized that I would meet you, and it was inevitable. So I practicised and now I'm almost immune to blood."
"Mordacai wasn't amune to blood?" Ellie muttered, looking away.
"No"
She looked back at him. "What, happened? How did you become a vampire?" She asked.
He closed his eyes, "I've been waiting to tell you that for a long time."
"Why?"
"Because of something my family, mainly Carlisle, my father, and Edward has argued over for more than a hundred and fity years. You see, Edward has always feared that he had lost his sould when he became a vampire. He's believed that. And when he and Bella fell in love, he was afraid to change her."
"Afraid to take her soul?"
"Yes...But we don't know if that's true or not...seeing that it wasn't Edward's fault that he's a vampire, and not Bella's fault if she became a vampire..."
"Would it be the fault of who made them a vampire?" Ellie wondered.
"That was another theory...Another fear Bella and Edward feared."
"Why did you want to bring this up?"
Zephen sighed. "Because of the possiblity of you becoming a vampire."
"Me? What do you mean?"
"I love you more than anything, I won't leave until you wish me away...and well I don't know how deep your love is for me...but well, you see Edward and Bella loved each other more than life its self...Bella, at the time had chosen to become a vampire..."
"But she never did..."
"No...but the reason I'm telling you this is because someday you might decide to become one...and I want you to understand everything before you make the choice to end your life."
"But I'll still be Ellie...?"
"Yes, but techincally vampires, I, we aren't alive."
"And you don't age...?"
"No...I've lived for nearly 70 years."
"Wow."
"Yeah...Ellie, I need to tell you something, but first I have to ask."
"What?"
He sighed, he looked suddenly uncomfortable. "Have you ever been to church?"
Ellie nodded. "Several times...I guess. Mom and dad are both Christians...but we don't do church very often..."
He closed his eyes and his brow furrowed. "Are you a Christian?" He asked.
"No"
He just nodded. "It must be strange for a Vampire to be talking about Church and Christianity..."
"Yeah...it is."
He laughed. His eyes still closed. "Do you understand Christianity?"
"Yeah, I have the whole basics down...but I'm not into it much..."
"I did something...something that cannot be made up for." His eyes opened, and he sat up. He looked down at her. She looked up at him. "Many, many years ago my family and I lived in India, my father was a minister, a pastor, and a missionary, we were a missionary family. But my mother died, and I threw away my faith." Ellie was frozen. "And then as we were on our way to a Sunday morning church service, I went, but took no part...Another vehicle hit ours head on. My father was injured badly, and I was dying." Ellie didn't like that thought, the thought of Zephen on the ground, blood, pain, death. "Dr. Cullen found us, he worked at a Clinic nearby, his daughter Alice was very close to my sister Esther...she was home sick that day. Alice saw me dying, and begged Dr. Cullen to save me...me...But he was trying to save father. And then, Edward was there, he too a doctor...Alice begged him. But He didn't want to risk my soul, but I told them I didn't believe anymore. And so he changed me."
"What about your father?"
"He died."
"Oh..."
"Ellie, I-, I gave up God...how...I gave up faith...I believe I lost my sould when I chose that...not when I became a vampire..."
Ellie sat up and hugged him. "It's not something so terrible." She told him. He held her there. "I don't know if I want to become a vampire yet...so we don't have to think about that right now."
"Alright."
"I heard Maw Maw Bell once say something about La tua cante...what does that mean?" Ellie asked.
"It's what you are to me, and Bella is to Edward. It means your blood is much more...better, than anyone elses..."
"Oh...Do you...drink blood?" Ellie asked, bluntly.
"Yes"
"Human blood?"
"No"
"Animal blood? Why?"
"Because we don't want to hurt humans. We'd rather live with them. Though 'we' doesn't mean all vampires, just my family..."
"Mordacai" She whispered.
He nodded. "We call our selves 'vegetarians'."
Ellie smiled. She leaned against him. "So...when's your birthday??" He asked.
"Steptember 23rd...When's yours?"
"March 14th."
"Hm...Alice lied, she said it was today."
Zephen laughed.
Ellie leaned against him. She closed her eyes. "I wish this could last forever."
"You and I both."
She didn't know how long they were like that. His arms around her, she against him. Then he stopped breathing. She looked up into his face.
"What's wrong?"
With out answering he stood up and pulled her behind him. "I've never smelled anything like it before" He murmered. Then his eyes widened. He could see something deep into the forest that she couldn't see. "What is it?" He whispered. Ellie looked frantically in the direction he was looking into. Then her eyes widened as she saw him come into view.
Brown eyes, brown hair, darkened skin. "No" Ellie whispered. It couldn't be him, it couldn't be him. His chest was bare, but he wore a pair of sweat pants. He was much taller then Zephen, and much larger.
"Get away from him, you don't know what he is." The young man ordered. In that moment she realized that he knew what Zephen was.
"What are you?" Zephen demanded. The boy struggled to not answer him, his body shook. Then Zephen hissed, "Mongrel."
But the boy's gaze went to Ellie. "Ellie, come here, now!" He demanded.
"How do you know her name?" Zephen asked him. Ellie was more frozen then before
"That's not the question...it's what you are doing with her?" The two glared at each other.
Ellie saw that a fight was coming, she could feel it, and both were tensing for it.
"That's none of your business!" Zephen hissed. The boy growled. Ellie moved forward from behind Zephen. "Ellie?" He asked, he shoved her back behind him.
"Get your parasitic hands off her!" The boy yelled. He advanced forward. Zephen crouched down, hands spread slightly.
"Please don't fight!" Ellie cried. Zephen froze. Ellie tried to move forward from behind Zephen again, but he restrained her.
"LET HER GO!" The boy shouted.
"Never!" Zephen hissed.
"Then I'll tear you apart!" He came closer.
"Please don't Jordon!" Ellie screamed. Zephen's eyes widened. He turned slightly to Ellie.
"What??" Then he gasped. His head turned back to the boy. "You're her brother?"
"Ellie get away from it, now!"
"No!" Ellie whimpered.
"NOW!" Jordon took another step toward's them.
"I'll go home with you just please, please don't hurt him!" She begged Jordon. But Zephen held her.
"I can't let you go with that dog!" Zephen held her back.
"LET HER GO!" Jordon shouted again, taking another step closer.
"Please Zephen, let me go." Ellie whimpered. Tears slid down her cheeks.
"No, I can't." He whispered.
"Please Zephen" Ellie stopped struggling. She went limp in his arms and cried. He held her for a moment as she cried in his arms.
And then he was gone. Ellie didn't mean to distract him from Jordon, but she did. Jordon had rammed himself into Zephen, throwing him away from Ellie. Zephen crashed into a tree and Ellie screamed. Then she was in Jordon's arms. Zephen stood up and crouched ready to attack. But just before he kicked off, sparkling hands held him back. Zephen struggled against Alice and Jasper.
"Let her go, he's only taking her back to her home." Alice told him.
"No" Zephen continued to struggle. Jordon looked at the three vampires. Then he turned and ran, carrying Ellie with him. "NOOO!" Zephen yelled.
Sorry it took so long...well review...and yeah...